Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 15.67% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking344
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency5.50of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameWimbledon XT
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 May 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed850 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Memory bus width2x 256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed4800 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory-

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

HD 7970M Crossfire 15.67

  • Other tests
    • 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
    • 3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p132
Full HD102

FPS performance in popular games

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Atomic Heart 35−40
Counter-Strike 2 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 30−35
Atomic Heart 35−40
Battlefield 5 65−70
Counter-Strike 2 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 30−35
Far Cry 5 50−55
Fortnite 80−85
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Forza Horizon 5 40−45
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 55−60
Valorant 120−130
Atomic Heart 35−40
Battlefield 5 65−70
Counter-Strike 2 27−30
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 200−210
Cyberpunk 2077 30−35
Dota 2 90−95
Far Cry 5 50−55
Fortnite 80−85
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Forza Horizon 5 40−45
Grand Theft Auto V 55−60
Metro Exodus 30−35
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 55−60
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
Valorant 120−130
Battlefield 5 65−70
Counter-Strike 2 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 30−35
Dota 2 90−95
Far Cry 5 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Forza Horizon 5 40−45
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 55−60
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
Valorant 120−130
Fortnite 80−85
Counter-Strike 2 18−20
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 110−120
Grand Theft Auto V 24−27
Metro Exodus 18−20
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 140−150
Valorant 150−160
Battlefield 5 40−45
Cyberpunk 2077 12−14
Far Cry 5 30−35
Forza Horizon 4 35−40
Forza Horizon 5 27−30
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
Fortnite 30−35
Atomic Heart 12−14
Counter-Strike 2 7−8
Grand Theft Auto V 27−30
Metro Exodus 10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 21−24
Valorant 80−85
Battlefield 5 21−24
Counter-Strike 2 7−8
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
Dota 2 50−55
Far Cry 5 16−18
Forza Horizon 4 24−27
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 14−16
Fortnite 14−16

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is GeForce MX570 A, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire:

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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